The annual Granville Garden Club Daffodil Show, took place Saturday and Sunday, built around the theme, "Bryn Du Mansion Journey Through Time," and structured to “walk viewers back in time through special moments in the mansion’s past.”

Sallie Sexton Jones, in the person of Anne Lach, was giving tours and sharing mansion facts Saturday at Bryn Du.

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Visitors were treated to representations of Bryn Du’s time as a private home and cattle farm with Sallie Sexton Jones at the head, “through its years as an ersatz headquarters for the Longaberger Company, to its present-day incarnation as a sought-after venue for weddings, athletic contests, polo games and community events,” according to a news release.

Saturday was also “Garden Day” at Robbins Hunter Museum, which featured an American Daffodil Society’s (ADS) recognition of the museum, as well as the dedication of the Jill Harms Griesse Historic Garden.

“Garden Day” at Robbins Hunter Museum saw an American Daffodil Society recognition of the museum.

“Garden Day” at Robbins Hunter Museum saw an American Daffodil Society recognition of the museum.

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As earlier reported, the road to garnering the ADS honor began several years ago, when the museum’s garden committee laid the groundwork for a well-planned and designed planting of named varieties of the spring flower.

The honor is significant in the botanical world, “placing the Jill Harms Griesse Historic Garden on a list of only 25 gardens in 15 states to have met the staunch criteria of being recognized as an approved Daffodil Garden,” according to a news release.

Just after the ADS dedication, a second dedication occurred along the side of the Robbins Hunter Museum for the newly refurbished Lady’s Garden, funded by J. Park Shai III in honor of his wife, Holly Griesse Shai.

The Lady’s Garden got a new pea pebble surface, limestone edging and a trellis for climbing roses.